WARTIME EXPEDIENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 136, 11 June 1942, Page 4

WARTIME EXPEDIENTS

The request that residents shall place rubbish bins at their gates for the convenience of the collecting service is one that householders will, no doubt, endeavour to comply with. They will realise that in wartime all these expedients must be resorted to so that petrol and man-power may be conserved. But there should be a definite undertaking by the City Council not merely that the practice will be "reconsidered" after the war, but that the full normal service will be restored. In an emergency, when an essential service can be maintained in no other way, householders may be asked to co-operate, but the economy is not a justifiable one in normal times: It is not true economy to save the wages of a few men by compelling thousands of householders (in many cases the housewives) to carry their bins down to the front gate and back again in all weathers. Other towns may have adopted this practice, but people who have seen unsightly bins lining neat streets (to be sometimes knocked over and their contents scattered) will agree that there are other and far less objectionable ways of saving a few pounds.